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and colony reproduction by ‘budding’, could also be a factor, since it might facilitate the evolution of parasitic colony founda ...

aspects of the other two hypotheses and, to some extent, might be con- sidered a synthesis of the various ideas that have been p ...

1989; Hölldobler and Wilson, 1990). Members of the genusEpimyrma are parasites of variousLeptothoraxspecies. FourEpimyrmaspecies ...

what ecological circumstances does a species evolve a particular socially parasitic life history? Do species generate their own ...

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their incredible diversity of associations, and the separation of research into distinct disciplines that rarely intercommunicat ...

3) and seed-parasitic beetles (Messina, Chapter 4), adult females search for hosts in a way analogous to predator foraging. In a ...

on a continuum of strategies (Pianka, 1966; Schoener, 1971; Huey and Pianka, 1981). Ambush foraging, in particular, is likely to ...

predatory mites remain within a patch of prey only as long as the quality of the patch remains high, as measured by the number o ...

the decision to feed on a particular host. However, the parasite may also influence the behaviour of the vector to increase the ...

foraging for patchy resources. However, while it is sometimes reasonable to assume that parasite behaviours within the host are ...

Uexküll (1934) argued that we can only appreciate how and why an animal does what it does if we view it as the subject, rather t ...

Fraenkel, G.S. and Gunn, D.L. (1940)The Orientation of Animals. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 352 pp. Hart, B.L. (1994) Behav ...

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Index Index Acanthocephalans 179, 185, 191 Acanthocephaloiedes propinquus 179 Acanthomyops 321 Acanthopagrus australis182, 191 A ...

Behaviour adaptive modification 66, 74 change 243 dragging behaviour 69 ecology 31, 41, 42, 52, 53, 243 theoretical 59 female se ...

Cross-fertilization 171, 175, 177, 186, 192 Cruise forager 339–340 see alsoForaging, cruise Cues gustatory 71 indirect 47 long-d ...